$ cd $HOME/Downloads $ tar xvfz mecab-0.996.tar.gz $ cd mecab-0.996 $ ./configure --enable-utf8-only --prefix=/usr/local/mecab $ make $ sudo make install $ cd $HOME/Downloads $ tar xvfz mecab-ipadic-2.7.0-20070801.tar.gz $ cd mecab-ipadic-2.7.0-20070801 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mecab --with-mecab-config=/usr/local/mecab/bin/mecab-config --with-charset=utf8 $ make $ sudo make install